Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1887-06-08

Twas an answer, glance or q tone,
That tatefully severed two bodies, s., 4
Whose souls through forever are one.
While you walk the dull pathway of duty,
Another less dear, by your side, .,,
Do you think Of the sweet past, wonder,
. OF our lives that are parted 80 wide? :.
Does memory bring back the garden
'Twas an Eden to me with You there
When the future was radiant with promise
So false, so entracingy fair9
The best of this life is the dream life,
Unhampered by duty or care; i II
When the soul scars aloft in its dreaming,
And communes with it's complement there.
We shall meet though the mountains divide US,
Or oceans between US may roll - y
Love laughs at the trammels OF distance,
And space cannot fetter the soul.
DRESS FOR RHEUMAT1cs.
j 1t is sometimes said that thi IS climate
is likely to produce rh eumatism, at
least in some systems, and the follow
Ing from the Family Doctor, in Cassell's
Magazine, may be read with personal
profit: Flannel I'M der clothing, or cal
it wool, is not cure for chronic rheu-
3 matism, but it is so sure a preventive
that I am justified in urgently RECON-
ending its use. Nay, further; with
out holding extreme views, like the
German doctor, would advise patients
who are subject to rheumatism or rheu-
matte govt to adept the wooden system
OF clothing almost entirely, both by
night and by day. There is no reason
at all why the sheets of the bed should
not be of wool, pillow cases alone being
Of linen. If thisSplan We're adopted
therezwould be but little chance indeed
of catching chillin bed. Once adopt
cd, so great would be the comfort OBJ
tanned and the safety ensured that the
linen or cotton sheets would be very
soon discarded.
l must here swarm the invalid, how
ever, against neglecting to have these
wooden sheets or thin blankets regu-
larly washed. would carry out my
scheme of wooden day clothing so far
as to permit neither linen next to the
skin, nor, except on particular and I'M
avoidable Dire SIS occasions, linen any
where; and the same rules should be
carried out winter and summer. OF the
feet and limbs particular care should
be taken. The boots or shoes-boots
are best-ought to be strong, of the
best leather, and roomy enough to adj
init warm worsted sock or stocking
being worn. These should be soft and
on no account should they be worn
after they become damp with prespi-
ration or otherwise.
Those who suffer from chrome rheum-
atism have often weak $ hearts; the
blood does not find its way back from
. the feet with celebrity, and heat and
Precipitation are the result. Thousands
Ct people not only catch cold
but positively catch their
deaths, through their feet. Why
will they not be warned? Socks and
stockings are cheap enough, yet know
many who spend pounds on their backs
and begrudge pence on their feet. Two
pairs of socks or stockings week!
This is not enough, reader.
IF yon are subject to rheumatism or
have an idosyncrasy that points that
way, or if you ARE ever troubled with
sacidity or heartburn, change the socks
once day. If you do you will live
to bless the Family Doctor" for giving
you this hint. Persons of the rheu-
matte diathesis who do not wear wool
len clothing are very liable to .chills
through damps and draughts but even
those who do dress as advise should
not expose themselves rashly. =
POTATO scAB.
Much debate has been held as to
the origin of this trouble and many
causes have been assigned. No explain
alton has been universally accepte d,
but the following deserves attentio n,
coming as it does fro m the Connecti-
cut Experiment Station, which is noted
for thorough work and cautious state
$ment: %''The skin of healthy potato
tuber consists Of a layer of cork cells
of uniform thickness and when the skin
is injured or portion of it cut away
the wound heals by the formati of a
new layer of cork, which produces it.
self in a manner very similar to what
takes place when the skin of an animal
again forms over wound. When the
pOlatO tuUeI grows Ill WdLeI VI Wien
the soil is kept unduly wet the cork
layer increases in thickness, at various
points producing a multitude of little
warts upon the surface. Where these
warts occur the cuticle is less resistant
than otherwise and decay of the tissue
underneath is likely to take place. If
the excess of water about the tuber con-
tinues for a considerable time decay
sets in and the starch and tissues of
the t1lber become discolored. When
under favorable conditions decay is
arrested the cork layer forms be-
tween the decayed and healthy parts of
the potato and the potato is .scabby.,
This affection Of the potato is accord.
ingly the result Of excess of moisture,
either because Of its tex ture or on ac-
count of the occurrence Of protracted
period Of wet weather. Stable manure
and other fertilizers influence it as
they affect the state Of moisture in the
soil. Stable manure may also aggra-5